MagicPedia:Selected anniversaries/October 30

1923 - Topper Martyn, a popular comedy magicican was born Victor Martyn in England.

1948 - Fifteen students of magic and the occult failed to establish contact with the spirit of the late Harry Houdini at a seance held in the Greenwich Village apartment of Conjurors' Editor Walter B. Gibson.

1981 - Maurice Fogel, a professional magician and mentalist known own as "The Amazing Fogel" dies.